That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 24, 2019

“Grandpa, I hope you’re not losing my inheritance in the stock market.”

Grandpa thinking; “I thought I made it clear to my offspring that any of my grand children should not be allowed in the house.”

“You’re not seriously going to make me wear a 300-pound dress like that when I grow up, are you?”

“Why do you have so much hair in your nose?”

“Where’s the bucket? Mommy says she can hardly wait to see you kick it!”

18% is still better than the 2000% APR Pay-Day Loan sharks charge…

Should we pull Jenny out of the fireplace now?

Grandpa, if you give me a dollar, I’ll tell you where you left your pipe.

“My mom gave me a nickel to buy a pickle; I didn’t buy a pickle, I bought some chewing gum….”

“Yes, dear boy, you are all in blue. When Mr. Gainsborough comes to paint your portrait in a few years, you’ll be in blue then, too. Mr. Gainsborough likes little boys in blue!”

“Get away from me, kid, you bother me.”

“Seabiscuit in the fifth”

This is a $500 dollar suite. Please remove your grubby little hand before you sully it.

“Grandpa,is it true you made your pile on a bordello in Alaska ? And, yes, this IS my real hair…”

It’s never too early to start teaching the time value of money.

“That’s right, dear. You be nice to the gentleman at the candy store, and he’ll be nice to you.”

It’s a fact – Grandpa made his"pile"/ in the grand, traditional style/ unashamed exploitation /of the poor’s desperation-/ the man was majestically vile !

I say Greta, don’t you have a date at the U. N.?

“I’m reading the back page classifieds, darling. Grandma and I are looking for a partner for a threesome.”

A nickel? How much damn candy does she want? I don’t even pay my employees a nickel for a weeks work.

" Grandpa, Willie’s locked himself in the loo again, and I really, really, really need to go! "

CHILD: Tell me about poor people again Daddy! Is it true that they love their children? FATCAT: Well, I’ve heard it said though I can only imagine it’s because they don’t have money to love. Now be a good lad – you’re a boy, right? – and go do something more useful than bothering me.

The Brown Family: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Brown_Family_E10231.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/johnson_eastman.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=535 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson 

https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/Johnson.php 

https://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.johneast?s=0&n=10&t=C&i=0 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160624005124/http://www.nbmaa.org/original-site-assets/timeline_highlights/essays/johnson.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Johnson_Eastman.html 

http://hoocher.com/Eastman_Johnson/Eastman_Johnson.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/01/04?comments=visible  

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2292 (September 23, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“United Shipbuilders is going to announce a stock split tomorrow and the wheat crop will be disappointing this year. Is there any other financial advice you need, Grandfather?”

What do you mean the New York Times doesn’t have any comics?

Old Man Craig noted with satisfaction that the “free child” ad he placed had indeed appeared in the morning paper. Any moment now, he expected someone—anyone—to appear and haul this accursed urchin away. Why, he thought, didn’t someone come up with a better way to offer unwanted items that people needed to get rid of? Why, maybe he should start one! A capital idea, Mr. Craig decided, but should such a list be named?

Ethel, are the neighbor kids sneaking in, or did we have another one?

“no, no, your grandmother’s always been on the plump side…”

“Grandpa? What’s a stiffie? Grandma says you never get them anymore.”

Better to invest in whore houses and funeral homes, they will always be busy rain or shine, in the deepest depression they will still be operating.